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Mount Vernon, MO
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Mount Vernon is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 4,550 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Mount Vernon is the 152nd largest community in Missouri.

It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Mount Vernon has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Mount Vernon has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Mount Vernon than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Mount Vernon may be for you.

Mount Vernon is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

The citizens of Mount Vernon are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.38% of adults in Mount Vernon have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Mount Vernon in 2018 was $24,519, which is middle income relative to Missouri, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $98,076 for a family of four. However, Mount Vernon contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Mount Vernon home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mount Vernon residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Mount Vernon include German, Irish, English, French, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Mount Vernon is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.


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